Opinion: Organized labor lifts up the middle class | NJ.com

Opinion: Organized labor lifts up the middle class | NJ.com:

 "Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that we all should make $12 an hour, have no defined benefits, no sick or vacation time and no pensions. Would this make everyone happy because everyone would be in the same boat? This is what corporations want us to do. They use the threat of cheaper labor against middle-class wage earners and keep workers busy fighting one another so that they won’t notice the corporations’ profit margins and their over-the-top executive pay and lush benefits.


While we were arguing over who should get a pension, Wall Street robbed billions of dollars from the middle class and its perpetrators went unpunished. Elected officials all the way up to the White House let the Wall Street crowd off the hook."